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The stock Classic template has this in its stylesheet.css; your template may have something similar. If so, change margin-top as desired.
Code:
.leftBoxContainer, .rightBoxContainer {
	margin: 0em;
	border: 1px solid #9a9a9a;
	border-bottom: 5px solid #336633;
	margin-top: 1.5em;
	}